Dipole-dipole excitation and ionization in an ultracold gas of Rydberg atoms

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 17, 2005, Pages

  Li, Wenhui ^a   Tanner, Paul J ^a   Gallagher, T F ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE INTERACTION; INTERATOMIC SPACING; RYDBERG ATOMS; STATIONARY ATOMS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; IONIZATION; PLASMAS;

ATOMS;

EID: 27144464473     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.173001     Document Type: Article

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